The Butcher & The Butterfly – Cover Award & Reveiws
The book cover for The Butcher and The Butterfly made the first cut in the 2024 Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media Best Book Design for Fiction. We graciously thank the fabulous Emmy Lowe for the beautiful and appropriate cover art. Recent Reviews of The Butcher and the Butterfly have been positive: …The story of a […]
The Butcher and the Butterfly – BookTrib review
“The Butcher and the Butterfly” follows several lost souls looking for connection, reconciliation and purpose. “A butcher can hit… A butterfly can dance.” In the boxing world, there are either butchers or butterflies, as Bobby Raymond’s old trainer used to say. The Butcher and the Butterfly, as its title promises, balances the violent with the delicate, […]
Book Release and Art Show – The Butcher & the Butterfly
Join us on Saturday, January 11th from 6:00-9:00 PM at the Apothecary Ale House in Morgantown, WV for the official release and signing of the new book by Jim Antonini, THE BUTCHER AND THE BUTTERFLY. The event will also include art for sale created by the fabulous book cover artist, Emmy Lowe. What others are […]
The Butcher & The Butterfly Book Release
BOOK RELEASE PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT – Tentative Date & Location: January 11, 2025 at Apothecary Ale House, Morgantown, WV Join Jim Antonini (author) and Emmy Lowe (cover artist) for a book signing and a night of fun! Independent Book Review The Butcher and the Butterfly By Jim Antonini Genre: Literary Fiction / Sports Reviewed by Warren […]
Holiday Book Sale
Pump Fake Press needs to clear out book inventory this holiday season. HOLIDAY BOOK BUNDLES! Any 2 books = $30; Any 3 books = $40 at https://www.jimantonini.com BULLETS FOR SILVERWARE A gritty, murder-mystery thriller set in the backwoods of West Virginia. It was a finalist for the Appodlachia 2020 Best Appalachian Book of the Year. […]
New Book Alert – THE BUTCHER & THE BUTTERFLY is out
The Butcher and Butterfly is now available. The book release celebration and party will be held in January (details coming soon). Description: A wearied boxer turns his back on a chance at a world championship to search for his estranged brother in New Orleans. Trapped in a strained family relationship, a promising, young ballet dancer […]
Book Release Event – The Hot Dog Diaries
Details for the book release of The Hot Dog Diaries by Al Bonner and Jim Antonini have been finalized. Three wonderful music acts will be performing – The BORN AGAIN HINDUS, NATURAL RAT, and HALEY SLAGLE. The event will be at GENE’S BEER GARDEN on Saturday June 8. The event starts at 5:00 PM. The […]
Looking for a fun summer read or something for a book club?
It’s a vacation time, so many folks are looking for a book to read or something for their book club. May we suggest – WILD BILL RIDES AGAIN. It is a fun and wild adventure book that has drawn rave reviews. What it’s about: To escape an unfilled life, a socially awkward middle-aged family man […]
IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?
Today is the anniversary of the publication of my second book, LIKE FALLING FROM AN AIRPLANE. It was published on March 17, 2022. I have been asked about its origin. I was living in Boston and working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Because of that affiliation, I was able […]
Four years of Bullets for Silverware
It is hard to believe that this gritty little book will be four years old. Although older, it still outsells my other two books, WILD BILL RIDES AGAIN and LIKE FALLING FROM AN AIRPLANE, at book fairs, holiday markets, and Arts Walks. It got released during the pandemic. Little did we know there would be […]